The 9-11 Commission held its twelfth and final public hearing June 16-17, 2004, in Washington, DC. On June 16 the Commission heard from several of the federal government's top law enforcement and intelligence experts on al Qaeda and the 9-11 plot. It was at this hearing that the question "What motivated them to do it?" was finally asked. The 9/11 Commission Report didn't include the testimony! and the media didn't report it.

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President Bush lied
to the nation about why we were attacked on 9/11, Bush cares more about the special
interests he serves than the American people. The cover story that Bush feeds
the American people robs the American people of the chance to decide for themselves
if they want to continue to be put in harm's way over specific foreign polices.

WTC
Pre-Collapse Bowing Debunks 9/11 "Controlled Demolition" Theory

Indications of the Imminent Collapse
of the World Trade Center Buildings
Disprove Explosives Theory

Scientists investigating the Sept. 11, 2001 collapse
of the twin towers said, "the World Trade Center towers showed
telltale signs they were about to collapse several minutes before
each crumbled to the ground." There
would not betelltale
signsif it was explosives (Controlled Demolition) that
caused the buildings to collapse.

"In the case of the north tower, police chopper pilots reported seeing
the warning signs - an
inward bowing of the building facade - at least
eight minutes before it collapsed at 10:29 a.m." New York Daily News
reporter Paul Shin wrote in his June 19th, 2004 article 9/11
cops saw collapse coming.

"Federal engineering investigators studying the destruction
of the World Trade Center's twin towers on Sept. 11 said New York Police
Department aviation units reported an inward bowing of the buildings'
columns in the minutes before they collapsed, a signal they
were about to fall." - NYC
Police Saw Sign of Tower Collapse, Study Says

WTC
photos show
buckling steel columns in the minutes before
the collapse
of the buildings.

Several minutes before the WTC buildings collapsed, the
structures of the buildings were clearly failing and the exterior steel
columns could be seen buckling. This simply would not be happening if
explosives caused the collapse because explosives don't go off in slow
motion for several minutes. Explosives don't slowly buckle steel columns
over several minutes.

Obviously, the way an actual controlled explosion happens
is the explosives all go off in a matter of seconds. There simply would
not be warning signs that the buildings were about to be demolished
by explosives, it would of course just suddenly happen. But that is
not what happened, the buildings did not suddenly collapse
without any indications that they would. Instead, the fires were compromising
the structural integrity of the buildings and the buildings' support
structures failed. Exterior columns buckled because the fires weakened
the floor trusses and the floors sagged. The sagging floors pulled on
intact column connections so as the floors sagged down, they pulled
the exterior columns inward. This inward bowing of the exterior columns
was evident to observers such as the police helicopters circling the
towers.

"The NYPD aviation unit reported
critical information about the impending collapse of the buildings."
They could see that the exterior steel beams of the buildings were bowing.
You can see the inward bowing of the steel columns in pictures of both
WTC 2, (the first building to collapse) and WTC 1 (the second building
to collapse.)

Buckling Steel

Dr. Shyam Sunder, lead investigator for NIST's building
and fire safety investigation into the WTC disaster, said, "While the
buildings were able to withstand the initial impact of the aircraft,
the resulting fires that spread through the towers weakened support
columns and floors that had fireproofing dislodged by the impacts.
This eventually led to collapse as the perimeter columns were pulled
inward by the sagging floors and buckled." "The reason the towers
collapsed is because the fireproofing was dislodged," according to Sunder.
If the fireproofing had remained in place, Sunder said, the fires would
have burned out and moved on without weakening key elements to the point
of structural collapse." - Latest
Findings From NIST World Trade Center Investigation Released

"According to Shyam Sunder, the concave bowing of the steel
was seen on the sides of the towers opposite where the planes
hit them. At 10:06 a.m. that morning, an officer in a police helicopter
reported that ``it's not going to take long before the north tower comes
down.'' This was 20 minutes before it collapsed. In another radio transmission
at 10:21 a.m., the officer said he saw
buckling in the north tower's southern face, Shyam Sunder
said."

"Engineers believe the
bowing of the exterior steel beams near the flame-engulfed floors
was the critical "triggering point" because that's
the direction each tower tilted as it came crashing down."

"The report includes photographs taken from police
helicopters showing the bending columns."

Key findings include:

Floor sagging and exposure to high temperatures caused the perimeter
columns to bow inward and buckle�Ĕa process that spread across the
faces of the buildings.

Even though the jet fuel on the planes burned off in the first
few minutes after impact, there
was enough office furniture to sustain intense fires for at least
an hour.

The original builders of the twin towers and those who later renovated
the structures did
not have a clear technical standard for deciding on how
much insulation to use around the structural beams, many
of which gave way in the intense heat.

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We have an unacceptable risk to our nation because of
specific foreign policies. People who promote these erroneous 9/11 theories
undermine efforts to get the focus on stopping these foreign policies.
We must take a serious look at the
motives for the 9/11 attacks and call for a full review of the specific
foreign policies that motivate terrorists to attack us. I see a lot
of people are spreading this "controlled demolition" theory, I also
notice they don't talk about ending the foreign policies. Please
donate to help Representative Press get the facts out to the people.
False theories like "9/11 was a controlled demolition" or "9/11 was
an inside job" or "The WTC collapsed because of explosives" really screw
up efforts to stop the specific foreign policies that put our nation
at risk. These false theories undermine serious efforts to get foreign
policies addressed, for example, U.S.
support for Israel. I suspect more than a few people pushing these
false theories are very happy to misdirect the American public away
from questioning specific foreign policies like U.S.
support for Israel. (It is the main policy of the
foreign policies that motivated the 9/11 terrorists. The plotter
of 9/11, Khalid
Sheikh Mohammed, actually went to school here in the U.S. He was
angry at the U.S. not because of his experiences here as a student,
but rather because of the U.S. foreign policy favoring Israel.)

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9/11 cops saw collapse
coming

New York Daily News - June
19th, 2004

The World Trade Center towers showed telltale signs
they were about to collapse several minutes before each crumbled to
the ground, scientists probing the Sept. 11, 2001, disaster said yesterday.

In the case of the north tower, police chopper pilots reported seeing
the warning signs - an inward bowing of the building facade - at least
eight minutes before it collapsed at 10:29 a.m.

But emergency responders inside the tower never got the order to evacuate
due to faulty communications equipment and garbled lines of command,
investigators with the National Institute of Standards and Technology
said in its second interim report on the collapse's causes.

"The NYPD aviation unit reported critical information about the impending
collapse of the buildings," lead investigator Shyam Sunder said at a
presentation in midtown.

"[If] that information would have been communicated faster to all of
the emergency responders in the buildings, it could have helped save
lives," he said.

Engineers believe the bowing of the exterior steel beams near the flame-engulfed
floors was the critical "triggering point" because that's the direction
each tower tilted as it came crashing down.

The findings that emergency responders could have been warned about
the imminent collapse angered some victims' relatives, who were already
fuming about the 9/11 Commission's report on Thursday that government
foulups contributed to the chaos on that fateful day.

"Eight to 10 minutes could have meant life for so many people," said
Sally Regenhard, whose son, Christian, was a probationary firefighter
who died in the collapse.

"We had no integrated command structure, so that the Police Department
was unable to communicate the fact that the building was going to collapse
to the Fire Department," she said. "It's a knife in the heart of the
relatives of the victims."

Other key findings include:

Even though the jet fuel on the planes burned off in the first
few minutes after impact, there was enough office furniture to sustain
intense fires for at least an hour.

If the twin towers had been fully occupied - 25,000 people - it
would have taken four hours to evacuate the buildings.

The original builders of the twin towers and those who later renovated
the structures did not have a clear technical standard for deciding
on how much insulation to use around the structural beams, many
of which gave way in the intense heat.

After Biological, Chemical
and
or Nuclear Attacks, it will beTOO LATE for regrets.

I wish I had reported the dirty dealings
of US foreign policy
carried out on behalf of rich and powerful special interests.
The propping up of oppressive regimes, the manipulations and
killings done in the name of the American people
done without their approval or knowledge.
I knew... but said nothing.

Mainstream media has not made the general public aware
of the history of US actions in the Middle East. US actions that are
the result of US policy makers. These are the people who are responsible,
not "America" itself. When Americans point out the unpleasant
facts of history they are often unfairly and inaccurately labeled
as "anti-American" Mainstream media is to blame for not
making the public aware of the history. We must have a fair
media so the people can make decisions based on the facts of history.
The tactic of labeling For example, the US supported Saddam in the
late 1950's and the US supported two coups that put the Ba'ath party
into power in the first place. Please donate to Representative Press
to help get these facts out to people. You can't explain it away as
"you gotta do what you gotta do." or "well it was the
cold war". In order to make it clear how wrong US policy makers
have been, I use a traditional example of human victims of oppression
in the following post. This should hopefully make clear that wrongs
have been committed in our name:

"It is an exaggeration to say that only the most powerful are
granted the authority to establish norms of appropriate behavior -
for themselves. The authority is sometimes delegated to reliable clients.
Thus, Israel's
crimes are permitted to establish norms: for example, its regular
resort to "targeted killings"
of suspects - called "terrorist atrocities" when carried
out by the wrong hands. In May 2003, two leading Israeli civil rights
attorneys provided "a detailed list of all of the liquidations
and all of the attempted assassinations that Israel's
security forces carried out" during the al-Aqsa Intifada, from
November 2000 through April 2003. Using official and semiofficial
records, they found that "Israel
carried out no less than 175 liquidation attempts" - one attempt
every five days - killing 235 people, of whom 156 were suspected of
crimes. "It greatly pains us to say the following," the
lawyers wrote, but "the consistent, widespread policy of targeted
liquidations bounds on a crime against humanity."
Their judgment is not quite accurate. Liquidation is a crime in the
wrong hands, but it is a justified, if regrettable, act of self-defense
when carried out by a client,
and even establishes norms for the "the boss-man called 'partner,'
" who provides authorization" - Noam Chomsky, Hegemony
or Survival, p24

The CIA actively supported the 1963 coup that brought the Ba'ath party
to power and the CIA made lists of people it labeled as communists and
gave these lists to "the submachine gun-toting Iraqi National Guardsmen".
The people on these CIA lists were "jailed, interrogated, and summarily
gunned down, according to former U.S. intelligence officials with intimate
knowledge of the executions."

Many suspected communists were killed outright, these sources said.
Darwish told UPI
that the mass killings, presided over by Saddam, took place at Qasr
al-Nehayat, literally, the Palace of the End.

A former senior U.S. State Department official told UPI: "We were
frankly glad to be rid of them. You ask that they get a fair trial? You
have to get kidding. This was serious business." US diplomat James
Akins served in the Baghdad Embassy at the time. Mr. Akins said, "I
knew all the Ba'ath Party leaders and I liked them ... Sure, some people
were rounded up and shot but these were mostly communists so that didn't
bother us".

Think about this: What if they were Jews that were rounded up and shot?
What if it was Jews whose names we handed over to be killed? Would it
be seen as a serious event? Would it be pursued? Would there be a call
for prosecution of those responsible?

I hope this comparison can help people start to understand the degree
of evil perpetrated by US foreign policies? This is just one example.
Does substitution "Jews" in place of "Iraqis" or "Communists"
help you understand the degree of evil that US policy makers are responsible
for? Are you going to do something now to make a call for justice? "Nazi
hunters" worked for decades after the initial crimes of the murderers
and facilitators of the deaths of Jews. Just because in the above case
those murdered were not Jews but Iraqis and the murders were not Nazis
party members but Ba'ath party members and the collaborators were Americans
and not Europeans, does that mean you sit on your ass right now and do
nothing? I think that if most people realized someone who was responsible
for the deaths of Jews had not be brought to justice they would demand
something be done about it. This should make you think about the evils
US policy makers have gotten away with and why people would be angry to
be on the receiving end of these policies. (from
blog)

David
Barsamian: I interviewed Eqbal Ahmad in August,
1998, a couple of weeks after the Clinton cruise missile attacks on Afghanistan
and Sudan, which were, according to the U.S., in response to the bombings
of the U.S. embassies in Tanzania and in Kenya. And he said, "Osama
bin Laden is a sign of things to come." I asked him to explain. And
he responded," The U.S. has sowed in the Middle East and in South
Asia very poisonous seeds. These seeds are growing now. Some have ripened
and others are ripening. An examination of why they were sown, what has
grown, and how they should be reaped is needed. Missiles won’t solve
the problem." Noam Chomsky: That’s
a very perceptive statement, expanding what he had pointed out much earlier.
By now there is quite good analytic literature on how they developed.
The
best book on that is by a British investigator, Jason
Burke, called Al-Qaeda.
He confirms in detail what Eqbal predicted. He reviews a whole series
of acts in the development of al-Qaeda. Al-Qaeda is not an organization;
it’s a loose network of very loosely affiliated, mostly independent
organizations that have a kind of a similar ideology. He calls it a network
of networks. And as Eqbal predicted, it became a major symbol and bin
Laden himself became a major symbol as a result of these bombings. Before,
it hadn’t been.
Take a look at Richard
Clarke’s book. He says the same thing about U.S. intelligence.
Until 1998, there was no special attention to al-Qaeda or bin Laden. They
were kind of marginal factors. In fact, they didn’t even use the
word al-Qaeda. But, yes, Eqbal is correct. What Burke points out is that
every single U.S. act of violence has been a very welcome gift to bin
Laden. He says, every use of violence is a small victory for bin Laden.
It helps him mobilize the constituency that will, he hopes, join him in
seeing the West as crusaders who are trying to destroy the Muslim world,
saying, they must defend themselves. - Noam Chomsky
interviewed by David Barsamian War
Crimes & Imperial Fantasiesthe
above is just a small sample transcript. The 2 disk set has tons more
info.